I'm very into you: correspondence 1995--1996, paperback/kathy acker

Why am I telling you all this? Partly cause the whole queerness/identity thing for me stretches through everything, absolutely everything.

Slipping between straight/gay is childs play compared to slipping between writer/teacher/influence-peddler whatever.

I forget who I am.

You reminded me of who I prefer to be.

] Its two in the morning.

I know what you mean about slipping roles: I love it, going high low, power helpless even captive, male female, all over the place, space totally together and brain-sharp, if it wasnt for play Id be bored stiff and I think boredom is the emotion I find most unbearable.

KA] -- from Im Very into You After Kathy Acker met McKenzie Wark on a trip to Australia in 1995, they had a brief fling and immediately began a heated two-week email correspondence.

Their emails shimmer with insight, gossip, sex, and cultural commentary.

They write in a frenzy, several times a day; their emails cross somewhere over the International Date Line, and themselves become a site of analysis.

What results is an index of how two brilliant and idiosyncratic writers might go about a courtship across 7,500 miles of airspace -- by pulling in Alfred Hitchcock, stuffed animals, Georges Bataille, Elvis Presley, phenomenology, Marxism, The X-files , psychoanalysis, and the I Ching .

Their corresepondence is a Platos Symposium for the twenty-first century, but written for queers, transsexuals, nerds, and book geeks.

Im Very Into You is a text of incipience, a text of beginnings, and a set of notes on the short, shared passage of two iconic individuals of our time.